Zakir Naik – A Believer’s Life should be Allah Centred
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The speaker discusses the concept of "employee centered" and how it can lead to a "employee centered" society. They explain that individuals are more bothered about their friend's behavior than their own, and that this is a problem that is more bothered by their own personality. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of personalizing one's behavior and using it to achieve their goals.AI: Transcript ©
Your center is your society. Some people are
society centered.
They only bother what their neighbor are doing.
They're in competition with their neighbor,
only with their neighbor. There's anecdote.
Once an angel comes and ask
and tells
a person, whatever you ask, I'll give you,
but I'll give you a neighbor double. So
he said, oh, angel,
give me a Rolex watch. So he gets
a Rolex watch. Very happy, but the neighbor
gets 2 Rolex watch. He says,
old angel, give me a Rolls Royce.
So the angel gives him the Rolls Royce
and give the neighbor 2 Rolls Royce.
Then he pressed to the angel, angel, give
me a very big villa, bungalow of 10
bedroom. Angel gives him a villa, bungalow of
10 bedroom, but give the neighbor 2.
He's thinking, what is happening? Then he says,
oh, angel, break my one eye so that
I cannot see.
Attitude.
He's telling the angel to break his one
eye. You know why? So that the angel
will break both the eyes of the neighbor.
He is more bothered about winning with the
neighbor than his own lifetime.
This is neighbor centered, competition with the neighbor.
Imagine,
He doesn't
mind making his one eye blind so that
his neighbors both his eyes are blind.
This is the problem.
You're more bothered about your friend pleasing your
friend, not pleasing Allah.
You're more bothered about pleasing your colleague, not
Allah.
You are material centered. Many people
are materialistic,
material centered.
Don't do whenever they meet with their friends,
they talk. Oh,
I have a watch. Tago. Tago. I have
Omega. I have a Rolex.
What
is a bezel?
How many diamonds does it have? I have
a latest study of Pathik Philip. Oh, Pathik
Philip.
So the main discussion is
watches. If you go to higher level, they
are discussing
what cars you have.
Do I have a BMW Porsche? No. No.
I have a Maybach
or Ferrari, Lamborghini.
Oh, I have a Bugatti.
So this is the main discussion. They spend
hours on that. If you go high level
yacht, I have a luxury liner. You
go high level, you have jet planes.
Talking about jet planes, which plane do we
have? I have a private jet plane. How
many seater? 13? I have a bigger one.
Which one do you have? Gulfstream?
Oh, I have a 373.
Oh,
this is
the time always discussing
materialistic
things. They are material centered.
Some people are fame centered. They want to
get famous. They want to get popular, so
they give money for degrees. You know, you
give money, you get degree. Doctor, you can
get. That also, you can get if you
have money.
Some some
fame vendor,
popularity.
How many followers do you have on the
Facebook,
on the YouTube, on Instagram?
What's the following you have? What? This
is the discussion,
popularity.
A true Muslim is only Allah centered.
And when you're Allah centered,
all this is combined together. You get everything
of all what I've spoken.
If you're Allah centered,
what do you think?
You'll not be self centered. Allah says,
a believer
will always want something similar, what he wants
for the other believer.
A believer will always want the same. So
you'll never be self centered.
So if you're Allah centered, self centered means
I will want good for my friend, for
my believer, so I will benefit.
So this is self centered if you're Allah
centered.
Family
centered? If you're family centered, you will love
your parents.
Because the prophet said, paradise lies beneath the
feet of her mother. You respect her.
But if they tell you do against Allah
and Rasool, you will not follow
them. If you're Allah centered, you'll take care
of your parents, of your wife,
our beloved prophet said, the best moment is
he, the best believer is he who's best
to his family, especially his wife. So if
you're Allah centered, you love your parents, your
mother, your father, your wife, your children.
It's a package.
You'll be society centered. You love your neighbor.
The prophet said, you are not a believer
if you sleep
with a full stomach and your neighbor sleep
with an empty stomach.
The Saba asked, who's your neighbor? The prophet
said, 40 houses next to you.
So here, you're competing with your neighbor.
Better watch, better house. You want to break
your eyes so that his two eyes are
broken.
Here,
you want to secure your neighbor.
He's a good Muslim who's a good neighbor.
So if you're Allah centered, all all these
things
completely change.
If you're Allah centered,
you wonder that the fame you're getting, who
is the most famous man in the world?
Muhammad,
did he do it for it? No.
He always did astaghfir,
always asking forgiveness. A person who have been
forgiven by Allah, the best human being in
the world, the best messenger in the world,
yet he's asking Allah for
forgiveness
every day minimum 100 times.
The sahabas were worried
that will their popularity
make them get less reward in the
akra? So they're afraid of popularity. They don't
want to become leaders. Today, people don't become
leaders. They'll do anything
to become the leader.
Here, the Sabbath used to run away from
becoming the leader because they knew it's their
responsibility.
So if you're Allah centered,
every Muslim should be Allah centered. And believe
me, all your problems of your life will
vanish.
And you have an example in the Palestinians.
The Allah centered.
If you become Allah centered, if I become
Allah centered, believe me,
all your problems will
vanish because Allah has a solution to all
the problems of humankind.
If you're Allah centered, you'll always say, Alhamdulillah.
You'll always praise Allah.
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